Presidential candidates of Ukraine have spent the most money on advertising in the media

Presidential candidates of Ukraine have spent the most money on advertising in the media

KIEV. March 26. UNN. All 44 candidates for the post of President of Ukraine officially spent 1 billion 273 million UAH. Most funds are directed at the use of media – 853 million. This was reported by NGO “Committee of voters of Ukraine” with reference to data of the CEC, reports UNN.

“44 candidates for the post of President of Ukraine officially spent 1 billion 273 million UAH”, – stated in the message.

A greater amount of money spent by the candidates sent for the use of media, namely 853 million.

As a percentage of the most on advertising in the media spent Yuriy Karmazin, namely 100% of all funds, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko – 89%, Dmitry Dobrodomov – 88%, Oleksandr Vilkul – 87%, Yuriy Boyko – 85% and Serhiy Taruta 83% of all funds spent.

In absolute terms all advertising spent Petro Poroshenko – 251 million UAH, Yulia Tymoshenko – 118 million, Oleksandr Vilkul – 97 million, Sergei Taruta – 80 million, Vladimir Zelensky – 64 million, Oleg Lyashko – 59 ml, Anatoly Gritsenko – 52 million Yuriy Boyko spent on advertising 39 million, Alexander Shevchenko – 34 million, Ruslan Koshulinsky 11 million, Eugene Moore 11 million, Andriy Sadovy – 10 million

Seven candidates on a post of the President of Ukraine has not officially made any expenses during the campaign. So, have not spent a single hryvnia Alexander Vashchenko Mykola Gaber, Dmitry gnap (withdrew candidacy), Alexander danyluk, Roman Nasirov Ruslan Rygovanov and Alexander Soloviev.

“The law does not impose restrictions on the size of the election funds of candidates, so politicians can spend any amount. As a result, all the candidates together only officially потратили1,2 billion UAH. However, informal costs even more. In particular, traditionally, the reports do not reflect the expenses of the candidate on salaries for facilitators, members of commissions and observers. Relatively high cost on advertising, it is indicative of the low quality of the campaign. On advertising was spent every second hryvnia of election funds of candidates, which is a excessive amount. The laws of some European States (e.g. Poland) prohibits the candidates to spend more than a certain percentage of funds, or paid political advertising is generally prohibited,” – said the head of CVU Alexey Purse.

It is noted that the information in the interim report covers the period since election funds prior to March 18, 2019. Final financial reports of candidates will be served after the election.

As reported UNN, NACP found violations in 17 report of the presidential candidates.